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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Poor, You, and I | |
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| Are You Poor? | |
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| The Government's Invisible Helping Hand | |
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| Hurricane Katrina: The Really, Really Poor | |
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| The Cause of Death-Poverty | |
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| You | |
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| They Speak for Themselves: An Oral History | |
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| The Poor and the Destitute | |
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| The Children of the Poor | |
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| Dumpster Diving | |
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| Sleeping Under the Viaduct | |
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| Drugs, Alcohol, and the Homeless | |
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| Reaganomics Put Women in Jail | |
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| The Heart of Chicago's Poorest Neighborhoods | |
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| Soup Kitchen Meals | |
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| Panhandlers on Chicago's Bridges | |
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| Hurtful Medicaid Cuts in Florida | |
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| Unemployed | |
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| Young, Jobless, and on the Streets | |
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| Our Fellow Americans in Prison | |
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| Who Are the Poor? | |
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| Back When Both Parties Still Seemed to Care | |
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| The Working Poor | |
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| The "Undeserving" Poor | |
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| Those Who Cannot Afford Transportation | |
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| Poverty Among Hispanics | |
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| Race, Place, and Poverty | |
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| Native Americans Who Are Poor | |
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| Let's Do Something | |
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| Social Security, Medicare, arid Medicaid | |
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| Are You Scared? | |
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| Jobs in Rebuilding America's Infrastructure | |
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| How the Poor Can Be the Stimulators the Economy Needs | |
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| Public Radio and the Poor | |
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| Starting from the Bottom Up: The Key to a Functioning Economy | |
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| Our "Evolving Standard of Decency" | |
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| Prelude to the Future | |
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| Writing Off the Poor Helped the Confederacy Lose the Civil War | |
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| FDR's "The Forgotten Man" Address | |
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| Thank You, Depression-Era Generation | |
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| An Economic Bill of Rights | |
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| Initiating a War Against Poverty | |
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| Victory in the War on Poverty | |
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| Some of the People and Organizations Taking Action to End Poverty | |
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| Half in Ten, Washington, DC | |
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| Eradicating Hunger and Undernutrition | |
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| Just Harvest, Pittsburgh, PA | |
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| A Minnesota Without Poverty, St. Paul, MN | |
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| The Annie E. Casey Foundation | |
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| Witnesses to Hunger, Philadelphia, PA | |
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| CLASP and Spotlight on Poverty | |
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| PolicyLink: Equity in Tomorrow's America | |
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| Ending World Poverty: Achievements and Shortfalls | |
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| Index | |